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To: NYCVirago

http://www.selectric.org/selectric/

the above link has reference scans of IBM typewriter fonts from the 70s none of them I can find have the "th" for use in things like "11th" as is in this document: http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/BushGuardmay4.pdf

I am not sure if these scans are of the complete fonts. Any typewriter buffs no if you could get special characters on 1972 (and before) typewriters?


244 posted on 09/08/2004 11:31:59 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
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To: Mad Dawgg

They are still all monospaced fonts - a word consisting of 6 upper case "W"s will be exactly the same length as a word consisting of 6 lower case "l"s. Not so with a proportionally spaced font, which slides the characters together based on their width. That is an excellent bit of research to find those reference scans.


296 posted on 09/09/2004 5:18:34 AM PDT by Buckhead
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